a promo pic of Shelley for Cutter to Houston, 1983
Shelley was cast as Dr. Beth Gilbert in the 1983 medical drama Cutter to Houston. She played a surgeon who was relegated to a small community hospital in the fictitious Texas town of Cutter that had a computer hookup to a big city hospital in Houston for cases the facility couldn't handle. By then, former Supermodel Shelley had starred in Charlie's Angels and had honed her acting skills on stage via Jack Heifner's Vanities, Elizabeth Diggs Close Ties and Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday as well as on the big screen via Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy.
a writeup about Shelley from 1983
